“Software engineering professionals are trained in best practices [...] Attempts to leverage these skills within academia by employing contract programmers typically fail [...] Software engineers that do have research experience [...] are, however, in very short supply, due to the lack of appropriate institutional homes and career progression paths for their work.”
Original articles:
http://dirkgorissen.com/2012/09/13/the-research-software-engineer/
http://dirkgorissen.com/2012/03/26/the-researcher-programmer-a-new-species/

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